Old Habits Quotes (12 quotes)

“When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: anywhere, born-again, dissolution, end, ending, give-up, giving-up, habit, halt, leaving, living, michael-bassey-johnson, new-life, old-habits, rethink, retreat, smoking, somebody, something, stop, taking

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“I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: artist, belief, brain, cognition, confession, consideration, creativity, creed, death, discard, funny, funny-but-true, habits, honesty, humor, instinct, intellectual, intuition, irrational, knowledge, life, logic, mind, negativity, old-habits, old-person, opinion, original-thought, positivity, precious, psychology, rational, rationalization, sentimental, stubborn, think, thinker, thinking, thought, thoughts, tradition, treasure, valuable, wisdom

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“I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

tags: life, marriage, old-habits, relationships, stagnant

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“Vipassan meditation is the best way to unlearn old habits of basal ganglia and amygdala, and strengthen the neocortex of the brain.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

tags: amygdala, emotional-intelligence, good-habits, mindfulness-practice, neocortex, old-habits, unlearns-old-habits, vipassana, vipassana-meditation

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“Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers.”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel

tags: breaking-habits, habits, old-habits, soldiers

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“Wait, sweetheart, you're not gonna card me?" He looked, bright eyed, at his table mates to join in the joke. "What, do I look old or something?"
She'd dealt with this before. "No, you look honest."
The guy to his left- this time central casting's Joseph (as in Jesus, Mary, and)- slapped his back and crowed at her response. "You thought you had her! She got you good, buddy!”
― Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

tags: comeback, honest, old-habits

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“Gradually I fell back into the old habit of being surrounded by books, papers, journals, and diaries.”
― Avijeet Das

tags: books-reading, diaries, old-habits, poets-life, poets-on-writing, writers-inspiration, writers-life, writing-craft, writing-process

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“When you get tired of being sick and tired that is when you will change your life.”
― Germany Kent

tags: empowering-quotes, empowerment-and-attitude, motivational-inspirational, new-day-quotes, old-habits, outcome-quotes, perspective-quotes, time-for-change, time-for-everything, ways-of-seeing

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“When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: age, boy, candy, child, children, elder, growing, growth, habit, habits, inclinations, innards, meal, michael-bassey-johnson, old, old-habits, older, sweets, worm

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“Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: old-habits

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“New Year’s resolutions are a consolation for it being impossible for us to really start our lives afresh.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: change, habit, habits, new-habits, new-year, new-year-new-me, new-year-s-resolution, new-year-s-resolutions, old-habits, start-over

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“She was sure no one else would notice how, in anger, his voice still slipped into something akin to a growl. But Belle had lived with the Beast longer than she had lived with Lio. She could pick out the parts that lingered still, but she would never tell him as much.”
― Emma Theriault, Rebel Rose

tags: beauty-and-the-beast, old-habits

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